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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What doctor does the cabbie take Tobias to see in the beginning of Chapter 52?
(a) Dr. Smith.
(b) Dr. Hardwick.
(c) Dr. Peterman.
(d) Dr. Grieves.

2. According to the chapter from Tobias’s book in Chapter 74, Sophina was charged with stealing the property of whom?
(a) Lord Williams.
(b) Lord Durnam.
(c) Gilbert Gunn.
(d) King Charles.

3. What judge does Jack describe as having condemned him as vermin in his letter to Henry in Chapter 59?
(a) Judge Liesenhall.
(b) Judge Anderson.
(c) Judge Denman.
(d) Judge Ross.

4. At what location do Jack and Tobias and their fellow passengers decide to abandon the coach and walk the road while the train descends in Chapter 66?
(a) Great Queen Street.
(b) Burlip Hill.
(c) Tyburn.
(d) Whitechapel.

5. Whom does the Thief-taker say he found “who was taken from her mother’s arms” in Chapter 67?
(a) Sarah Smith.
(b) Emily Tudball.
(c) Elizabeth Warriner.
(d) Mary Oates.

Short Answer Questions

1. Henry meets with Mr. Butler and his lawyer in a subaltern of what regiment in Chapter 79?

2. How old was Tobias when his father was charged with killing a man?

3. Tobias is compared to the hero of what novel written by him as he watches “his liberators pass him by while all the time berating himself for his own cowardice” in Chapter 76?

4. What kind of boat do Jack and Tobias escape in, in Chapter 70?

5. What was the name on the pill bottles that Mary Britten began selling instead of sausages, according to Jack’s letter in Chapter 58?

Short Essay Questions

1. What issues regarding money does Tobias deal with in Chapter 50?

2. Why does Mary go to the home of Mary Britten in Chapter 77?

3. What does Jack discover in Tobias’s notebook in Chapters 73 and 74? How does Jack respond?

4. What outcome is revealed for Jack and Mercy Larkin in the denouement of the novel?

5. Who appears to meet with Henry in Chapter 73? Why?

6. What takes place in Tobias’s house in Chapter 82? Where does Jack go when he leaves?

7. In Jack’s recollections from his childhood, how does he describe the altercation that took place between Ma Britten, himself, and Sophina in Chapter 60?

8. What exchange takes place between Tobias and Jack in Chapter 55?

9. How does Jack apprehend Tobias in Chapter 76? Where does he lead him?

10. What exchange takes place between Mercy and Jack in Chapter 84?

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